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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1207–1218.
Published: 28 June 2016
...Christopher Wimer; Liana Fox; Irwin Garfinkel; Neeraj Kaushal; Jane Waldfogel Abstract This study examines historical trends in poverty using an anchored version of the U.S. Census Bureau’s recently developed Research Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) estimated back to 1967. Although the SPM...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Kurt J. Bauman Abstract The current official poverty measure compares income to needs within a family. Some have suggested including cohabiting couples as part of this family. Others have suggested that the household be used as the unit of analysis for poverty measurement. I explore issues involved...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1665–1673.
Published: 01 December 2023
... child poverty rate in historical and international perspective. We demonstrate that whether using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), relative poverty measures, or an absolute poverty measure, the U.S. child poverty rate in 2021 was at its lowest level since at least 1967. The U.S. tax and transfer...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 965–976.
Published: 01 August 2023
... or race and ethnicity. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the Supplemental Poverty Measure (a comprehensive measure of poverty), this research note examines the poverty rate of mothers overall and by birth parity and racial and ethnic group in the six months before...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2139–2167.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Survey and using the U.S. Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, we describe differences in child poverty rates across immigrant generations and assess how these disparities are rooted in generational differences in the prevalence and impact of key poverty risk factors. Our estimates show...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 655–684.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-born are less likely to be disadvantaged vis-à-vis the native-born when hardship rather than the official income poverty measure is used, this study highlights the importance of using multiple measures when assessing the well-being of immigrants. Copyright © 2021 The Author 2021 This is an open...
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in The United States’ Record-Low Child Poverty Rate in International and Historical Perspective: A Research Note
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 1 U.S. child poverty rates from 1967 to 2021 using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) (left) and relative poverty measure (right). These estimates are from the U.S. Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement, as well as the historical SPM data series from Fox et
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 499–519.
Published: 01 August 2003
...John Iceland Abstract After dramatic declines in poverty from 1950 to the early 1970s in the United States, progress stalled. This article examines the association between trends in poverty and income growth, economic inequality, and changes in family structure using three measures of poverty...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2337–2360.
Published: 15 October 2020
...David Brady; Zachary Parolin Abstract Recently, there has been tremendous interest in deep and extreme poverty in the United States. We advance beyond prior research by using higher-quality data, improving measurement, and following leading standards in international income research. We estimate...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2065–2088.
Published: 01 December 2021
...J. Tom Mueller Abstract The accurate measurement of poverty is essential for the development of effective poverty policy. Unfortunately, approaches that use poverty rates to assess the causes and consequences of poverty do not fully capture the components of change in the poverty population because...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 717–737.
Published: 01 November 2009
... increased substantially, particularly in the 1990s. This observed increase was especially pronounced for individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; for all age groups with respect to extreme poverty; and for white males. On the other hand, the risk of chronic poverty declined during the 1990s (as measured...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2279–2305.
Published: 05 December 2019
... financial stress and the combination of all three dimensions of economic hardship are associated with the highest levels of behavior problems. Based on these findings, we argue that income poverty is an important but insufficient measure of economic hardship for children and that theory and research...
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Published: 08 May 2017
Fig. 3 Annual absolute change in poverty by gender of head. Based on headcount indices of poverty measured using household consumption per capita as given in Table 5 and computed from household consumption surveys for countries and time spells listed in Table 5 . The continuous line
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1479–1498.
Published: 24 July 2012
... biological or adopted children. These new measures also allow us to identify a small number of young, disadvantaged couples who primarily reside in households of other family members, most commonly with parents. We conclude with an examination of the complex living arrangements and poverty status of American...
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in The United States’ Record-Low Child Poverty Rate in International and Historical Perspective: A Research Note
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Published: 01 December 2023
Fig. 2 Percentage reductions in U.S. poverty rates due to taxes and transfers, 1967–2021. These estimates are from the U.S. Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement, as well as the historical SPM data series from Fox et al. (2015) . The relative poverty measure assesses
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 431–447.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., along with child care, to mediate the effects of poverty and other exogenous variables. We produce two main findings. First, the influence of family poverty on children’s intellectual development is mediated completely by the intervening mechanisms measured by our latent factors. Second, our analysis...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 235–248.
Published: 01 May 1989
... less and (2) the assumption of greater household “needs” when children are present. The research presented here also demonstrates that long-term permanent poverty rates among children are much lower than the conventional yearly measures. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1989...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1119–1141.
Published: 01 June 2021
... into perspective, compare it with the level of resources needed to move all single-mother households—the primary targets and beneficiaries of TANF—out of poverty. In 2016, an estimated 26.2% of single-mother households lived in poverty, according to estimates from the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 February 2006
....91.2.97 Charles , K.K. , & Luoh , M.-C. ( 2003 ). Gender Differences in Completed Schooling . Review of Economics and Statistics , 85 , 559 – 77 . 10.1162/003465303322369722 C.F. Citro , & R.T. Michael ( 1995 ). Measuring Poverty: A New Approach...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 719–746.
Published: 09 March 2012
..., education, and age composition, and the presence of other adults in the household. Beyond individual characteristics, social policy exerts substantial influence on single-mother poverty. We find that two measures of universal social policy significantly reduce single-mother poverty. However, one measure...
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